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tartoran··on I Use Development-Driven Specs, Not Spec-Driven Development
Yeah, I'm really not sure why you got flagged either. Reach out to @dang to unflag.
tartoran··on Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell
Male chauvinist pug Male chauvinist ping Male chauvinist pugs

I had no idea it was on purpose but I experienced some stubborn misspells myself (it wasn’t the above). I thought the predictor was just buggy and most times ending up switching to manual typing which it ‘s gotten worse too. I built over time a feeling of frustration with the general experience on smartphones.

tartoran··on Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011)
I haven't seen any allegation that Chomsky raped anyone, let alone kids. But Chomsky was quite close to Epstein and some of their leaked conversations tarnish his reputation quite a bit, irreversibly IMO.
tartoran··on Paraguay bank collapses with half of population's savings
Santiago Peña resigned as president of Paraguay. I wonder if this is a domino effect of Trump losing midterms.
tartoran··on Have I befriended a murderer?
People do indeed kill for the kick of it. But professional robbers stick to robbing, sometimes going as far as to not use real weapons in case they get caught. But there are all kind of offenders, some with mental health probelms or some panicking who end up killing even if they did not intend to do that initially.
tartoran··on Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media
Yes, and? What's the point you're trying to make? Social media does capture the bulk of attention and it's okay to use it to criticise social media practices themselves. What's wrong with that?
tartoran··on AI is destroying my CS degree
I wonder how you'd do without your AI augmentation if you find yourself not being able to use it for whatever reason. I wonder what you retained when the AI is not working... or with a very expensive augmentation that wants more cut from your pay...
tartoran··on Napping characteristics and incident dementia
I wonder what unitentional napping means as well. I assume it's for example watching TV/reading a book on the sofa and falling asleep as opposed to wanting to fall asleep with a book or while watching TV.
tartoran··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
> make sure it’s a model where the latest firmware is rootable and never connect it to your WiFi until you have root

Why does the TV ever needs to be connected to any WiFi? I'd say yank all the modems and antennas off it just to be safe.

tartoran··on Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse
For the mouse sake probably not as the mouse will not be freed and no longer subjected to experiments. From the perspective of the success of this AI surgery it's likely important that the mouse survived.
tartoran··on Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse
I don't think OP is mentioning the same doctor 40 years later. They mention "such" doctor:

"ast forward to today, and 40 years later such doctor called him and said"

tartoran··on LLM Voice
This will matter more when code quality starts to matter. Lately it hasn't. I hope it does at some point and LLMs could help there too if we only cared about this metric. And lastly, people need to remain the loop.
tartoran··on LLM Voice
> I am happy to read it (although I often skim read it)

I came to think of it, LLM output is not worth to be read like human written text. It's best to just skim it and move on. The problem is when this LLM output finds its ways everywhere on the internet. Being able to skim text requires knowing the context beforehand and knowing that you're dealing with LLM generated output. If LLM output that is published was labeled as such it'd probably make us less frustrated.

tartoran··on Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880
Which fumes are worse, from EVs or diesel filers?
tartoran··on Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
Yeah, we forgot information on paper it seems. Flawed as it is I like the idea though..
tartoran··on Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name
Fined maybe? But jailed is a bit too much. There are poor people who jump the turnstile who are not violent nor a nuisance, why make the assumption that anyone who jumps the turnstile is that bad actor you describe? I jumped the turnstile a few months ago (more like I crawled under in a frenzy like an idiot), I was running late for work, found out my card had to be refilled but there was a line at the machine and the train was approaching the station. Am I a violent criminal? If I got caught it would be fair to fine me but would you jail me?

As far as nuisance and violence on public transportation, that's a different problem that I agree it has to be dealt with. Apparently police don't do anything about it, they instead hunt for fare jumpers...

tartoran··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
One thing i noticed quite frequently lately: fires related to charging EV batteries. These fires are really nasty and hard to put out.
tartoran··on RJ Mitte has died
It's sad. The reality you describe is hard to grasp for many but it's the reality of modern life in many ways. I can't say that I wouldn't resort to saying things that I don't fully believe in if one of my friends was on the verge. I would give it shot to make them reconsider it and perhaps it was just an irrational moment.
tartoran··on Grieving the loss of details
Curious, how do you do this? What tools are you using to build and manipulate the graphs, and how do you feed that context back to the agents? The manual organization part sounds particularly interesting.
tartoran··on The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse
Is it just the young men whose mental health is declining? I'd go a generation earlier and see how things start to get pretty bad. A lot of kids these days don't hang out in person, they are hanging out virtually while laying down in their beds or in comfortable chairs in front of their consoles or computers playing video games online. This is quite unealthy way to grow up. A lot of teenagers, male or female are also undetachable from their cellphones and social media too. This is also a very unhealthy way to grow up.
tartoran··on Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
Sure, that goes without saying. But the current direction of anticonsumer surveillance seems to be going in a different direction. While waiting for the pendullum to hit back we can take it into our own hands and protect ourselves.
tartoran··on California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
Why not? It created quite a discussion around the subject. If you don't care for this why not simply ignore it?
tartoran··on Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
Hope to see a new market for disabling telemetry and phonehome features from cars. It should be legal to do so, if you own the car I suppose. I'm thinking that rigth now few pople even know how much spying their new car does to them but this will change and as awareness grows more and more people will want to do it.
tartoran··on Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
You'be been waiting for a blog post to make this decision?
tartoran··on Overnight, Meta deleted all her accounts
In theory I agree wholeheartedly. But what's the alternative for these users to do marketing? Also remember that a lot of these folks have no idea that they can be ejected from a platform with no reason/recourse..
tartoran··on Overnight, Meta deleted all her accounts
In a way you're right but that should have been her choice not forced out with no warning nor recourse. Also she was using META for marketing so this will affect her bottom line, she was basically kicked off the market...
tartoran··on Apple Unveils iPhone Duo
It's probably a good idea to reduce phone computing to a minimum. Also the larger phone will likely damage your vision to need glasses eventually but there are other ergonomic factors at play. Do you want to hold your phone with two hands? Doesn't it get tiring for wrists to hold the phone in the position? I personally reduced phone usage but am still using a SE2022 which is a small phone. For reading I got a e ink reader and Im very happy with that.
tartoran··on America is still beating China in the AI race
Yes, America (the US) is still beating China in the AI race, but it's got no way to keep the Chinese models from catching up. Also the amount of money burned in the US on AI is unfathomable. From that metric China may as well win with minimal investment and very little waste.
tartoran··on How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
Discussions are just discussions. You can always opt out not participate. HN's guidelines make discussions here are a lot more civil than reddit.
tartoran··on Exit the Cave
That's when the fumble time starts
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